Steven, what an ambitious and wonderful project! I'm not in any position to provide anything other than appreciative feedback. But I do wonder if perhaps there might be at least two editions - one comprehensive edition (probably incorporating all of the items you mention), and one or more scaled back editions.

Thank you for embarking on this huge undertaking.

This is an excellent work, very helpful.

I don't know how are you approaching it but you might want to start consistently with basics and then add to it -if that's possible. I mean you might want to add Hymns to every hour, or maybe keep it as it is in this sample and then add Hymns grouped for different Hours before or after the Psalter itself.

I may be missing something but can't see the Antiphona 3 for the Canticle of II Vespers.

Congratulations on your project, may God bless your work

Thank you for your comments and suggestions! I decided to include the hymns in the Psalter. See this link for a new version, with all the chants for Sunday and Monday of the first week.

@Pedro: Yes, I'm following the Ordo Cantus Officii closely. If the OCO doesn't provide music for an antiphon, I look at either the new Antiphonale Romanum, Les Heures Grégoriennes or Laus Divina for a substitute. I'm planning to include both translations of the Benedictus and Magnificat.

@ Emmanuel: The OCO doesn't provide an antiphon for the canticle Salus et gloria: it's always sung "more responsoriali, cum Alleluia". I know the new Antiphonale Romanum does provide for an antiphon, but I stick to the OCO for this project, because the adaptations of the entire OCO haven't been made public yet.

What is the "Laus Divina", which you mention between your sources?

What do you think of Laus Divina? Can you recommand it?

I know this is probably lame but why aren't the psalm tones included with the psalms? Are the psalms pointed so they can be sung? I apologize if this is self-evident but I'm not getting it.

What would be the pros/cons of having the hymns in-line vs having them in their own section?

Your formatting is really nice. I think you should include the psalm tones and pointing for each psalm's regular tone, whatever it may be. It will increase it's usability 10 fold. Including psalm tones in the back will require a lot of unnecessary flipping and will be tough on the binding.

In setting about my plan for doing an English (except for the antiphons) version of the Liturgy of the Hours for use with authentic chant melodies and tones, I don't see why it would be impossible to including pointed psalms. (As I said above, the pointing I believe is absolutely necessary with English.) The result would certainly be bulkier, but I don't believe there occur many situations where a proper antiphon does not have a specific, particular Psalm that can be expected to come under it. (Perhaps the only exception I could think of to this are the Daytime Hours). But proper antiphons at Lauds almost always take the Psalms & Canticle from Sunday, Week I which could then be inserted into the proper and pointed accordingly. Proper antiphons for Vespers almost always have their own proper Psalms & Canticle, or else refer to a singular Commons, which could also be inserted already pointed into the Proper. If memory serves, even the proper antiphons for December 17-24 are tied to the day of the week.

Thanks for asking. The project is currently not moving forward. Though most of the chants have already been typeset, putting together the entire book is upheld by more pressing projects (the Lumen Christi Missal, www.illuminarepublications.com, and the Klein Graduale, www.kleingraduale.nl). As these will probably be finished by the end of the summer and autumn respectively, I'm pretty confident that I can take up working on the Antiphonale by the start of Advent.